Sheffield street lights for sale online for hundreds of pounds

A campaign has been launched to help save historic period cast iron street lamps in Sharrow Vale. Pictured are Lorna Bartley, Katie Bennett, Jane Grant, Alistair Wood, Sean Brown and Shelley Cockayne with one of the lamps on Meadow Terrace.

Ellen Beardmore

Published:07:00Updated:12:38Friday 17 April 2015

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Lamp posts from Sheffield streets are being sold online for hundreds of pounds, The Star has learned.

The father of a council worker from Amey - which is carrying out the Streets Ahead contract to resurface the city’s streets and replace lamps with LED models - claimed staff are selling the lamps at a farm near Sheffield for up to £250 a piece, and they are being sold on again.

He told The Star: “Why can’t the council wake up and sell the lamps themselves to put money into their coffers?”

On auction website eBay, a cast iron Sheffield lamp post is currently being advertised for sale in the city centre with bids starting at £100.

Another lot of four cast iron lamp posts to be collected from Sheffield is for sale at £220.